oncoming

oncoming
/on"kum'ing, awn"-/, adj.
1. approaching; nearing: the oncoming train; the oncoming holiday season.
2. emerging: the oncoming generation of leaders.
n.
3. approach; onset: the oncoming of winter.
[1835-45; ON + COMING, after v. phrase come on]

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